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Walter Dworak

Walter Dworak

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Electronics

Amazon Recast Internal SSD Mod

Recently bought the 1TB 4 channel tuner model of Amazon Recast during the Prime Day sale. The unit itself is a very nice network tuner and I mainly bought the more expensive model

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
1 min read
Raspberry Pi

SteamLink Test on the Raspberry Pi 4

Given the inclusion of USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, and a faster Wifi connection in general it appears that the Pi 4 B may be the ideal Steam game streaming box so I

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
1 min read
Audio

Speaker Re-foaming

This should be a fairly short post about a recent first time experience re-foaming the woofers in a set of speakers I picked up from the local flea market for 5 bucks. The

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
3 min read
Turntables

Technics SL-Q3 Refurbishing

The Technics SL-Q3 is a fully automatic, quartz locked, direct drive turntable that was on the market between 1979-1980 (at least according to its listing on vinylengine.com). Its a pretty solid unit

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
5 min read
Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi Zero W Beer Sign

This is a project that I completed a while ago as a gift to give to a friend. Unfortunately some pictures were lost along the way so I'll try to be as detailed

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
6 min read
Turntables

Audio-Technica Sound Burger Refurbishing

The Audio-Technica AT-727 Sound Burger was a portable belt drive turntable sold in Japan, the UK, and Europe in the 1980s. It's generally popular among current collectors due to the idea that it

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
4 min read
Coding

Misc Ghost Blog Improvements

The vanilla Ghost install generally requires some tweaks to fully meet the needs of its user or organization. Here are some modification I made to this blog in no particular order. This page

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
1 min read
Arch Linux

Ghost Blog on Arch Linux with Systemd-Nspawn

This blog is powered by a piece of Node.js software called "Ghost". Unfortunately the official way of getting a production setup up and running is only really supported on Ubuntu and even

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
4 min read
Audio

Building a Stereo to Mono Channel Summing Box

Playing 78RPM records and monophonic vinyl records pressing from the mid-1960s-ish and earlier on modern stereo turntables presents some issues. It should be well known already that 78RPM records require a different size

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
5 min read
Bikes

Repairing a Bikes Rack Mount Points with Helicoil Inserts

I recently had a lot of success repairing the rack mount points on one of my bikes seat stays using this method, but found few sources initially that actually showed its usage on

  • Walter Dworak
    Walter Dworak
4 min read
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